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Race Policy Review Prevarication
Friday, 26 March 2004, 12:12 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Maori Affairs Spokesman Stephen Franks today described Labour's terms of reference, for its review of race-based policy, as prevarication. More >>
Muriel Newman’s The Column - March 25
Thursday, 25 March 2004, 2:25 pm | ACT New Zealand
This week the Column looks at the suspicious allocation of the Community Employment Group’s Social Entrepreneur Fund grants – which is only a snapshot of the Government’s frivolous spending of taxpayers’ money. More >>
Gravy, Anyone?
Thursday, 25 March 2004, 2:19 pm | ACT New Zealand
Recent revelations about the Government's highly questionable spending through the Community Employment Group's Social Entrepreneur Fund are simply a snapshot of Labour's blasé attitude toward taxpayers' money, ACT New Zealand Social Welfare Spokesman ... More >>
PM And Cullen At 6s And 7s Over Economic Policy
Thursday, 25 March 2004, 11:49 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Finance Spokesman Rodney Hide today said that Prime Minister Helen Clark and her Finance Minister are now at sixes and sevens over economic policy and the polices of the 1980s and 1990s. More >>
Nick Safe
Wednesday, 24 March 2004, 5:01 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Richard Prebble said in his view no Member of Parliament will be raising a breach of privilege against convicted National MP Nick Smith on the grounds that any Member of Parliament convicted of a crime which carries a penalty of more than ... More >>
Smith Conviction Justice Gone Wrong
Wednesday, 24 March 2004, 3:02 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today labelled National MP Dr Nick Smith's contempt of court conviction as nothing more than a completely avoidable misuse of justice. More >>
New Minister Must Address Poaching Now
Wednesday, 24 March 2004, 1:54 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader and former Fisheries Minister Ken Shirley today urged new Minister David Benson-Pope to act promptly to tighten Regulation 27 of the Amateur Fishing Regulations providing for customary rights. More >>
ACT Has The Answer
Wednesday, 24 March 2004, 11:34 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader Ken Shirley today delivered the keynote address to the 6^th Annual Public Law Forum, where he outlined a framework to solve the country's current foreshore and seabed impasse. More >>
Foreshore & Seabed, An Opposition View
Wednesday, 24 March 2004, 11:33 am | ACT New Zealand
Ken Shirley Speech: Keynote Address to The 6th Annual Public Law Forum. Wellington Town Hall, Wellington, 24th March 2004 More >>
Another Step Toward An Open Family Court
Wednesday, 24 March 2004, 8:56 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman was today delighted to announce that her Family Court (Openness of Proceedings) Amendment Bill had been drawn from the Private Members ballot. More >>
Govt Passes Buck On Dam Safety
Wednesday, 24 March 2004, 12:08 am | ACT New Zealand
Labour is set to impose new requirements for irrigation dams that could impose substantial costs on water users - despite Economic Development officials warning that owners will `kick up a fuss', ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff revealed ... More >>
Irrigators Set Up To Fail, Says Eckhoff
Tuesday, 23 March 2004, 3:19 pm | ACT New Zealand
Labour has set up irrigators to fail when they present their case to the Government-appointed Water Allocation Committee, regarding water rights to the Waitaki River, ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff said today. More >>
Truancy: Govt Breaches UN Obligations On Kids
Tuesday, 23 March 2004, 11:55 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Education Spokesman Deborah Coddington today accused Labour of breaching its UN obligations by not ensuring that truant children attend school, after reports that thousands of truancy cases are not being referred to the Non-Enrolment Truancy ... More >>
Act's -The Letter 22 March 2004
Monday, 22 March 2004, 1:44 pm | ACT New Zealand
The next election campaign has already begun. Despite MMP, the electorate realises there’s still a fundamental choice between voting Left or Right. Winston Peters’ decision to support Helen Clark's Treaty Royal Commission has aligned New Zealand ... More >>
Poll Signals Labour's Demise
Monday, 22 March 2004, 1:09 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Leader Richard Prebble today said the latest poll, which has the National Party with a 10 percent lead, shows one of the biggest leads for an Opposition since polling began. More >>
DoC And Labour Fooling Themselves
Monday, 22 March 2004, 11:22 am | ACT New Zealand
DoC's claim, to have done everything possible to reduce the risk to human life and property from a collapse of Mt Ruapehu's crater lake, is demonstrably untrue and reflects an appalling level of self-deception, ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader Ken ... More >>
Spend On Sportspeople, Not With Gay Abandon
Friday, 19 March 2004, 11:53 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Sport & Leisure Spokesman Stephen Franks today predicted that Olympic sports - such as swimming, hockey, athletics, rowing, sailing and water polo - would be seething with fury at the latest revelations of the Labour Government's ... More >>
Liberty Belle: The power of the State
Friday, 19 March 2004, 11:46 am | ACT New Zealand
The powers of the State are enormous and terrifying when abused. You sail along in life assuming that when things do go wrong and an agent - or agents - of the State overstep the mark then good people will be outraged and wrongs will be righted. More >>
Taxpayers Wait, While Minister Plays
Thursday, 18 March 2004, 5:49 pm | ACT New Zealand
Finally, after my repeated questioning in Parliament, Tertiary Education Minister Steve Maharey has acted to investigate the Hikurangi Learning Centre and the funding it receives from the taxpayer, ACT New Zealand Education Spokesman Deborah Coddington ... More >>
ACT Reaction to Peters' U-Turn
Thursday, 18 March 2004, 3:47 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Richard Prebble said today the ACT party did not support Mr Peters' new position on the foreshore. More >>
